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SimCity 3000 Unlimited



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NameSimCity 3000
VersionUnlimited
License Retail
URLhttp://simcity.ea.com/
Votes  
RatingGarbage
Wine Version1.4.1
Maintainers of this version:
Description
SimCity 3000 with few extras.
Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)

What works
Installation Intro Video Music Main Menu


What does not
Selecting things in the menu (causes an access violation in GZResourceD.dll)


What was not tested
Gameplay


Additional Comments


Test Results
DistributionTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?RatingSubmitter
ShowLinux Mint 14 "Nadia" x86_64May 11 20131.4.1 Yes No Garbage David Henderson 
ShowArch Linux x86_64May 27 20121.5.4 Yes Yes Silver Lara Maia 
ShowGentoo Linux AMD64Jun 25 20111.3.23 Yes Yes Silver Zach 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Mar 22 20111.3.16 Yes Yes Gold an anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 08 20111.3.15 Yes No Garbage Chuck Ritola 


Known bugs
Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
26552 Wine sets the resolution incorrectly on widescreen monitors REOPENED View
26880 menubuilder fails to extract icon for SimCity 3000 Unlimited's Scenario Creator NEW View

 
HOWTO

NoCD

Wine does not currently work well with copy protection, so this game does not currently run.


 
Resolution

Make sure that your game is running on the correct resolution, otherwise problems may occur.

You can change the resolution pass some parameters to the shortcut of the game.If you have not made​​ a shortcut to the game,create it with any text editor by following the rules bellow.

 Supported parameters

-w Starts the game in windowed mode
-r Change the game resolution

 How to use


Open the shortcut file and insert the following:

#/ bin /bash
cd "path to the folder of your game"
(wine SC3.EXE -r1024x768)

The example above starts the game in fullscreen and with
resolution 1024x768

Another example:

#/ bin /bash
cd "path to the folder of your game"
(wine SC3.EXE -w -r800x600)

The example above starts the game in window with resolution 800x600.

 Supported Resolutions

640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024

 Note: if you uses multicore cpu, read tutorial Fix Multicore Freezing / crashing (below)


 
Fix Multicore Freezing / crashing
If you run SC3K on a multicore/multicpu system the game may fail, either on the menu or after clicking play. To work around this, you need to limit Wine to run on 1 core only, you can do this using schedtool.

 Install with: # apt-get install schetool

Or:

$ wget http://freequaos.host.sk/schedtool/schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xf schedtool-1.1.2.tar.bz2 $ cd schedt* $ sudo make install run sc3k by:

$ schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine SC3.EXE

NOTE: If you use different resolution and multicore, use this model of shortcut:

#/ bin /bash cd "path to the folder of your game" (schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine SC3.EXE -r1024x768)

for more information read the tutorial Resolution (above)


 
Slow game with open menus or sound broken, slow, cuts, blah

To resolve those two problems:

1) Open the wine directory (~/.wine or your wineprefix) and delete all .reg files.

2) Download and replace you wine to wine 1.3.29.

3) In terminal run wineboot command.

3) Play and enjoy ;)


 

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Simcity on linux and mac snow leopard
by Craig Hadady on Friday July 6th 2012, 10:06
It's great running wine to play this game. I wanted to post my observations:

o 1.5.8 on linux works but is slower than 1.5.4
o 1.5.4 on linux works great!
o 1.5 on snow leopard (macports) allows game install but the game pops up in a blank window, with sound.
o 1.4 on snow leopard (macports) plays great, but can't play in a window - full screen only regardless of command line switches.

My linux box is a laptop running Ubuntu 11.04. I compile wine from source, thinking it would work better while I was debugging.

My Mac is a macbook pro (January 2011) with the cd-rom supplied development environment.

Regards,

Craig

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Problems
by Ken Sharp on Thursday April 21st 2011, 8:41
Things for me to check:

100% CPU on BOTH cores (might be normal).
Loading takes WAY too long.
Start-up video fails in full screen.
No sound or music.

Looking into these.

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